Improvement in hay and cotton presses



B J. DAY.

Hay and CottonPress. N0.160,579, Patented March 9,1875.

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BENJAMIN J. DAY, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAY AND COTTON PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 160,5?9, dated March 9,1875; application filed January 18, 1875.

ing a horizontal case and a horizontal follower, which is worked by atrain of reducinggears working into toothed bars connected to thefollower, to press the hay or other matter; and it consists of a novelcontrivance of the train in a sim ple and cheap way, for giving aquicker speed to the follower during the fore part of the operation,when the resistance is not so great as in the latter part, and forgiving a slower speed in the latter part, when the resistance isgreatest.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the train and a part of the press, andFig. 2 is a plan view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a portion of the case, in which the toothed bars B, forworking the follower, slide, being geared by the pinions G with theshaft D, which gears by the large wheel E and pinion F with thecounter-shaft G, which gears by large Wheel H and pinion I with thedriving-shaft J, to which the power will be applied in any approved way.

By this train a slow and powerful movement of the follower is effectedfor finally compressing the bale but it is too slow for working to thebest advantage in the fore part of the operation. I have thereforeapplied the pinion K to the counter-shaft G, and the large wheel L tothe driving-shaft J, and have secured said wheel L and the pinion I to asliding sleeve, 0, which slides on said shaft J by a lever, M, to changereadily from one connection to the other, thus enabling the follower tobe worked faster in the fore part of the operation than it can be workedby the train, and thereby increasing the capacity of the press. Thepulley N, belts O P, shifting-pulleys Q, R, and shifting-pinion F arefully described in my patent granted December- 15, 1874, and

numbered 157,799.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim ,as new, and desire to secure by Let-

